"Crash Lander" wrote in message
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It didn't strike, it didn't impact, it didn't bounce off of, it didn't
land on, they didn't collide...it smashed into the friggin house.

Now you've gone and confused the whole issue! Did it "Slam" into the
house, or did it "Smash" into the house?

I dunno, but this mejia sensationalism all started when some fool screamed
"OH, THE HUMANITY" during an unscheduled blimp unpleasantness.

The die was cast. Now, every time friggin' fighter jet falls into a
neighborhood and bounces off a gutter, douses everything with jet fuel and
then ignites, it's a "fire" and the airplane "struck" the house. Just
because the house was instantly crushed, consumed by fire and incinerated
doesn't mean the airplane "slammed into" it. That's, like, subjective and
stuff.

It -figuratively- slammed into the house. More accurately, it lost power,
drilled into the house, exploded, blew the house to hell and gone, blew most
of the house next to it away, blew a fireball thousands of feet into the air
and required three fire departments to extinguish the homes burning around
the crash site. But it sure didn't -slam- into anything, did it?

And, gawdam, it wasn't a "vintage jet." It was "retired from active
military service."

-c